The Sun. — London, England, 1838-10-05 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Which is the best way o dealing with Popery ? As twO•of the great states of Europe, England and Prussia, are In some degree of perplexity on the subject, the question is not an unimportant one. We have a very forcible description of the way in which Oliver Cromwell dealt with Popery, in a clever article on The Life and Writings of Sir William Temple, in the Number of the Edinburgh Review for October. The policy of Oliver was at all events consistent. " The rebellion of the aboriginal race," says the Reviewer, "had excited in England a strong religious and national aver sion to them ; nor is there any reason to believe that the Pro tector was so far beyond his age as to be free from the prevail ing sentiment. He had vanquished them ; he knew that they were in his power; and he regarded them as a band of male factors and idolators who were mercifully treated if they were not smitten with the edge of the sword. On those who resisted he had made war as the Hebrews made war on the Ca naanites. Drogheda was as Jericho ; and Wexford as Ai. To the remains of the old population the Conqueror granted a peace, such as that which J.shua granted to the Gibeonites. He made them hewers of wood and drawers of water. But, good or bad, he could not be otherwise than great. Under favourable circumstances Ireland would have found in him a most just and beneficent ruler—she found in him a tyrant ; not a small teazing tyrant, such as those who have so long been her curse and her shame,—but one of those awful tyrants who, at long intervals, seem to be sent on earth, like avenging angels, with some high commission of destruc tion and renovation. He eas no man of half measures, of mean affronts, and ungracious concessions. The Protestant ascen dancy was not an ascendancy of ribbands and fiddles and statues and processions. He would never have dreamed of abolishing penal laws against the Irish Catholics, and withholding from them the elective franchise—of giving them the elective franchise, and excluding them from Parliament—of admitting them to Parliament, and re fusing to them a full and equal participation in al the blessings of society and government. The thing most alien from his clear intellect and his commanding spirit was petty persecution. He knew how to tolerate , and he knew how to destroy. His Administration in Ireland was an Administra tion on what are now called Orange principles, followed out most ably, most steadily, most undauntedly, most unrelent ingly, to every extreme consequence to which those principles lead ; and it would, if continued, inevitably have produced the effect which he contemplated—an entire decomposition and reconstruction of society. He bad a great and definite object in view—to make Ireland thoroughly English ; to make it another Yorkshire or Norfolk. Thinly peopled as Ireland then was, this end was not unattainable ; and there is every reason to believe that if his policy had been followed during fifty years, this end would have been attained. Instead of an emigration such as we now see from Ireland to England, there was, under his government, a constant and large emigration from England to Ireland. This tide of population ran almost as strongly as that which now runs from Massachussetts and Connecticut to the states behind the Ohio. The native race was driven back before the advancing van of the Anglo- Saxon population, as the American Indians, or the tribes of Southern Africa, are now driven back before the white settlers. Those fearful phenomena, which have almost invari bly attended the planting of civilized colonies in uncivilized countries, and which ha been known to the nations of Eu repe only by distant and questionable rumours, were now pub licly exhibited in their sight. The words extirpation,' • eradication,' were often in the mouths of the English back settlers of Leinster and Munster—cruel words, yet, in their cruelty, containing more mercy than much sefter expressions which have since been sanctioned by Universities and cheered by Parliaments. For it is in truth more merciful to extirpate a hundred thousand people at once, and to fill the void with a well governed population, than to misgovern millions through a long succession of generations. We can much more easily par don tremendous severities inflicted for a great object, than an endless series of paltry vexations and oppressions inflicted for no rational object at all. Ireland was fast becoming English. Civilization and wealth were making rapid progress in almost every part of the island." This exposition of C romw ell's policy, which was so far successful at all events, affords at the same time an answer to the question why the policy pursued from the time the penal laws were first broken in on, till 1829, was eminently unsuccessful. But before proceeding to answer the ques tion, which is the best way of dealing with Popery in the present day, it may be worth while to cast an eye on what has been going on in Prussia and some other parts of Germany. And here, opportunely, we find in the British and Foreign Review for October a long article on the subject of Catholicism in Prussia and religous persecution in Germany, evidently the production of one who possesses much knowledge of what has been passing of late years in the countries in question. Though we cannot vouch for the truth of many of the statements, yet they wear an ap pearance of truth, and we are inclined to believe them true. It would appear from these statements that the power of the Pope was almost annihilated in Prussia and other parts of Germany, that as long as Prussia was actu ated by liberal and enlightened views, Protestantism was of itself spreading in every direction ; but that from the moment Prussia abandoned that enlightened policy the Pope has gained the upper hand. The King of Prussia has experienced nothing but discomfiture in all his con flicts with him. We cannot enter on the lon g de tail of facts adduced by the Reviewer to p rove th e im policy of the course pursued by Prussia. He has shown however, that by that course she has contrived to aliens e from her all the enlightened Catholics, and to give :o Austria the supremacy throughout Germany. " The cha racter of Protestantism," he justly observes, " is entirely based upon freedom of discussion ; now a Government which, like Prussia, has within its dominions stifled all pub lic discussion to such a degree that the whole country has been converted into a mere echo of the King's thoughts and words, is ill chosen to forward the interests of Protes tantism." " Popery," be elsewhere observes, " it cannot be denied, has a spirit, a historical spirit, of a thousand years standing ; and this spirit is not one favourable to enlightenment. The liberal Germans saw in the re-establishment of the Pope's authority in 1813 a retrograde movement, and desired to see the new intruder driven away as soon as possible, in order to make room for the old possessor. the Independent National Church, which subsisted until the fall of Napo. leon. All these persons were averse to the new connec tion with the Romish See, because ultra-montanism, bigotry, and ignorance were with them synonymous terms ; and they sympathised with Prussia because they believed she was firmly decided to constrain within proper limits the rapidly advancing encroachments of the Church upon the State ; in one word, they believed Prussia was espousing the cause of enlightenment against bigotry and ultra-montanism. It is clear, therefore, that if the intentions of Prussia had been good, her task was easy; the Protestants of Germany neces sarily could not be against her, and the enlightened Catholics, whose numbers are great, were decidedly for her." Before we proceed to notice what the writer says with respect to the manner in which Prussia has cheated herself by thinking to play off Popery against liberal opinions, we shall lay before our readers what he subserviency of P o p ery itself to Aust r ia. says respecting the The Catholici sm w hi c h the liberals of Germany dis like, nay, hate, is not a religion : it is a political e ngine in the hands of Austria. Th e P ope i s an Austrian general, making conquests for his master in Germany. To under stand the subject well, we h ave on l y to consider therela. tion in which Catholicism is placed with respect to Austria. It requires no great clearness of vi s i on to perceive that the power of Catholicism lies in the Pope. Catholicism, as a religion, is what the Romish See, that i s t o say the Pope, declares to be the religion of the Church. If there were no Pope, the belief of the Church could only be founded upon that of a majority; and a majority consists of individual opinions counted together, and individual opinions are pro scribed by the Church—a majority on the other hand presup poses the possibility of a minority. The Catholic Church permits only one opinion in matters of belief ; he who adopts an opinion different from that of the Rornish See is in the eyes of that Church a heretic—an outlaw who no longer be longs to the Church. Take away the Pope, and you take away what essentially distinguishes the Catholic religion from Protestantism. " And what is the Pope now? What is the Pope whose will was formerly blindly obeyed by the millions ? The Sove reign of a small state in Italy, in hourly fear of being driven away, and materially and morally abolished by the handful of Lis own subjects. Take away, we say, the Pope, and you take away Catholicism ; but we may also say, take away the Austrian soldiers from the Romagna, and the Pope has ceased to exist. If Catholicism is still a political engine, it can only be one in the hands of Prince Metternich, in whose hands is the Pope. " It is evident that the Austrian Government has nothing to fear from Catholicism, for if the Pope should pick a quarrel with the Austrian Cabinet similar to that he entered into with P rus sia, the former would be sure to win the battle; its sol diers would not have to fight, but only to run away. Popery, as a real political engine, and not as a mere bugbear, is, there fore, only another word for the political influence of Austria ; and where this influence is not, Popery is a word without meaning. " But even if Austria had not the very body of the P o p e w ithi n her grasp, th e Church _never could enter into a strife with her. The Government o . f Austria, as all political power there, lies entirely in the aristocracy, a numerous, wealthy, and compact Catholic p h a l d a i nx ritar T ie h s e sch ß o is i h e o a p d s th an e d ch A u r r c c h h: bishops, and in fact all the g The Catholic Church is, are taken from the aristocracy. The therefor e , j us t as likely to re el_fcrahiusct hthuerephoaligtiacianlstGaoviseornry . ment of Austria as our own H . Ministry. The Church in Austria cannotenttebraitntthoeaynayrsetrniofe, with the Government, for the simple re ason two, but one and the same thing. According to this writer Prince Mettesrnicrhhaacvying in view the re-acquisition for Austria o f the ove upern r Germany, so contrived matters that the P o p e, who yielded without difficulty concordats on favourable terms to . the sm all States, held out against Bavaria and Prussi a, and the concordats with these Powers put them entirely in the hands of the Pope. On the 'other hand Prince Metter nich succeeded in persuading Bavaria and Prussia that in the new power introduced into the state they would have a political engine which they could make use of for the sake of restraining the liberal propensities of the times. But they forget that as Punch only says what Punch is music to say, so the Pope is just what Austria chooses he shall be. " With respect to Austria," says the Reviewer, " it is THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1838. sae-- perfectly true that Catholicism is a political instrument. But why ? Because the Pope is a mere functionary acting under the Austrian Government, whom the Cabinet can re strain and deprive at pleasure. The case was very different with respect to Prussia and Bavaria. There the Catholic Church was to become an inde pendent establishment, and all that constituted its in dependence was so much taken away from the power of the political Sovereign." " The King of Bavaria, we are fur ther told, is no longer a King, but merely a paid func tionary of the Catholic Church ; and Austria at this mo ment has no more faithful ally and friend than the Govern ment of Bavaria. The King of Prussia, on the contrary, endeavoured to resist the growing influence of his new rival, and to destroy the imperiunz in imperio ; and he has been forced to retreat. The influence of Prussia over Germany is gone." The King of Prussia has so managed matters that the Catholic Church is the only privileged body in his kingdom ; and having driven from him the liberal Catho lics, he is not supported by the liberal Protestants. The moral would seem to be that the best way of dealing with Popery is to govern with a spirit of fairness and impartia lity—to consider subjects of all religious opinions as equally entitled to all civil advantages. By adopting this course the liberal and enlightened of all religions will equally sup port the Government, and a Government so supported has nothing to dread from any priesthood whatever. The Cromwellian way of dealing with Popery being, therefore, no longer possible, the only other way is to place Catholics and Protestants on the very same footing. When a con trary course is pursued, liberal Catholics are forced to make common cause with the illiberal ; and every friend of civil and religious liberty among the Protestants is com pelled, in accordance with his principles, to throw his vv , ight into the scale of the oppressed or insulted sect.— Morni»g Chronicle. Notwithstanding all the lioity toity affectation of security with which Ministerial hacks fill the columns of Ministerial Journals, there can be no doubt that throughout the whole empire a storm of contempt is gathering which must, ere long, burst forth against the Ministry with irresistible and withering force. What the end of all this may be, it would be as yet somewhat rash to attempt to determine ; but if ever any political change was distinctly foretold by general symptoms, it is that the present Ministry will not for many months longer be endured by the country. By all classes it is utterly despised, and even the very persons who profit by its existence cannot so far command the nutural impuses of human nature as to refrain from occa sional strong expressions of contempt for that which a writer in Blackwood's Magazine so truly calls the " abor tive, feeble, and perplexed" Administration. 'File defenders of the Government (save in some absurd efforts of jour nalism where mere unblushing impudence of fiction is re sorted to) are compelled to avail themselves of the lan guage partly of lamentation and partly of apology. This, however, is nothing but contempt in another form. Even O'Connell's language concerning Ministers is con temptuous. To the Irish people he says that they must no longer trust in the pad dispositions of the Government, since it has not been able to effect any permanent good for Ireland, and instead of becoming more able, is becom ing less so. He tells those who aid listen to him (and they are many) that he and the Irish generally have patiently (!) awaited the result of the Ministerial efforts tdk advance the interests of Ireland, but the Ministry, in stead of increasing in power to serve them, have actually become less able to carry any one measure useful to Ire land. The strength of the Tory party, he maintains, on the other hand, has augmented, and he impresses upon his countrymen these two brief conclusions ; first, that the pre sent Ministry would carry into effect his policy, or, as lie phrases it, " obtain justice for Ireland," if they could ; se condly, that they cannot, because the English Tories are ' too strong for them. Such is the contempt for the Govern ment openly and ostentatiously published to the world even by its principal friend and potent ally, Mr. O'Con nell. is it to be supposed that the feeble wordiness and shabby special pleading of such a senatorial creature as Mr. Ward, who himself does not abstain from some statements implying contempt, will neutralise the effect of Mr. O'Con nell's friendly admonitions ? Ridiculous ! The strength, indeed, of the Government lies in such personages as Messrs. Ward, and Pease, and Hawes, and that trifling class who, while affecting independence, are so fl ittered by the notice taken of them, that they would rather de any thing than really disoblige " Lord John this and Mr. Spring that," and all the rest of the small flies of Downing street. But wherever there is anything like force of sen timent, or even energy of language, the scorn of Ministe rial worthlessness breaks out in terms not to be mistaken, and certain to be more or less effectual towards a change in the Government. Ministerial hacks try to persuade the people that, let the Government be ever so con temptible as to the individual talents and strength of character of its members, it is at least docile and manage able in the hands of the populace ; and that if it. be but ordered in sufficiently loud and imperious terms, it must and will obey. But it is only a small, a very small, mi nority of the people—to wit, the shallow conceited inmates ot Mechanics' Institutes, and the like, who relish this description of government. The people at large do not like a Government whose rule of action is like that of footmen and shoe-blacks, to do just that which they are ordered to do. The people may, indeed, wish their pre judices to be consulted by the Government, but they ex pect to find the Government capable of taking the lead, and not waiting for the spur of imperious dictation from any quarter. The people, if they do not know, at least feel the distinction between a popular Government and a servile Government. But the nobles feel, and the gentry ' feel, and the " masses" feel, that the present Government is at once feeble and servile, and a disgrace to their com mon country. There is not the slightest doubt of this broad fact. It is only among miserable trimmers, and des perate jobbers, and the despicable expectant crew of hangers-on for reward, that there is any exception to the strong sentiment that the present Government is a disgrace to the country. We do not mean to say that all who entertain this sentiment wish for the re-establish ment of the Tories in the Government. We know very well that this is not the ease, but we rejoice to know also, that even they who are most hostile to the principles ot Tory Government, and who would most strenuously oppose the carrying of those principles into action, are consinced in their hearts, and not ashamed to confess with their lips, that were the Tories in power there would be no longer a contemptible Government ; no longer a " feeble, perplexed, and abortive" Government, which a true-hearted Briton cannot advert to, without blushing for the political degra dation of his country. We repeat, that in all directions throughout this empire; the strongest and the most prevail ing political sentiment is that of scorn for the present Ad ministration, Against such a sentiment as this, we do not believe that even the trickery and knavery of O'Connell will be able to uphold the Government. Either a great and very unlikely change must take in the public sentiment of England and Scotland, or the Government must be changed.—Morning Post. Mr. O'Connell has published yet another of the inter minable series of his letters. This last effusion is ad dressed, not to " the people of Ireland," but to his " be loved constituents." The tone of this production is pitched exceedingly low. It breathes of despondency — almost of despair ; although phrases, that seem to embody anticipations of triumph, are employed from time to time. Mr. O'Connell is obviously approaching the end of his mis chievous career. The miserable old man has yet to endure some of the penalties of detected and baffled imposture : and then the curtain will fall upon the achievements of one of the most unprincipled and most successful mountebanks whom the present age, fruitful as it has been in politicalad venturers, has produced, or of whom history has pre served the memor y. But although the influence of Mr. O'Co nne ll i s d est i ne d very so much, remains in unabated vigour—n power, in virtue of which Mr. O'Connell has achieved speedily to pass away, the by the lapse of every hour that is added to the duration of the system of Government ly, gains strength The anti-Englishwhich the by the ultimate f i l e t Melbourne Cabinetpowerin Ireland is . the power that now prevails in Ireland. merely the tool—thee exists by pandering to ; and the fate of that power is t, as many suppose, to be determined f Trish aff.iirs,the Rohmasamno that of e d ofcfuaO'Connell. priesthood tfh otheo d real;—a O'Connellnd directorsl although a it s ho l t e , g e n n i convenience—a n instrument, not immedi ately O'Connell to be an instru mentqualities useful to its emplo er ately to be replaced, perhaps , t w h i a d t er th fi e el ß d ofomrasnoiCecattihoool,icaopiimesosthohoy one combining so inany s og t d i r l te l ,a 1 greater t not power, b with t r h g forgotten, possesses now a much ich to strengthen the hands of the party selected, than in the when O'Connell n t e h ll e was pretensions fi rspt of the Pope. Other daysoo iar out, as the se qualities, besides, than those, which have been cultivated by Mr. O'Connell, durin g begin the greater p or ti on o f hi s lif e , to be indispensable to the extended Romish Ch urc h i n I re l an d . triumphs of the 'That Church is no longer prostrate. It is al most triumphant. It aspires to b e d om i nant. Its rFel ators, and dignitaries are now b roug h t into closer • colli sion with the highest ad ministrators o f our social and political s y s te ms . M o re subtlety, gre a t er po li s h , a nicer observance of p ro p r i e ty, a deeper insight i n t o the influences which sway lofty minds, O'Connell possesses : —these over hi s p ass i ons th an M r . these are the qualities, which the man who is destined to succeed to the O'Connell's political influence, must displayheritance o f Mr. qua lities will, infallibly, be developed 1;1 e and these y t the demand for them. Mr. O'Connell is but a influen c e of coarse artist. His coarseness, indeed, was indispen sable to his perfe ct success. A. man o f m ore i a tellect, and of more hi g hl y - p itche d moral feelings,refined m have failed in all those scenes, where O'Connellhuasst achieved his greatest triumphs. The Romi s h Ch urc h , we hare stated, aspires to be dominant in Ireland. Circuin- stances favour the scheme. The policy of the last twenty years would seem to have been framed expressly with the view of paving the way to the re-establishment of the Ro man Catholic power . in things temporal. The legislative measures, more especially, of the present occupants of office, are directly prompted by the directors of the Ro man Catholic Church. Let but the Whig Government endure for a few years longer ; and the supremacy of the papal power in Ireland is as certain,as is the succession of night to day. This necessary consequence of keeping the Whigs in office, is what O'Connell and the Rornish priest hood hint at, in the employment of the phrase—" Justice to Ireland." The danger of witnessing the triumph of that sort of justice is much greater than unsuspicious Conserva tives are disposed to imagine. Nothing less than such a triumph will ever satisfy the real agitators of Ireland — the anti-English party. But would even that measure of imputed justice—would the recognition of popery+ as the state religion in Ireland—satisfy the Rornish priest hood? Undoubtedly not—nor would it avail, in the way of satisfaction to a greater degree than the concession of the Bill of 1829 has availed towards that end! Ire land, ruled by a Roman Catholic Priesthood, then, by the supposition, a State Priesthood , en j o y ing large revenues and vastly extended power, would ne . s , h r submit to be ruled by a Parliament of Protestant Englis men. The old policy of concession would then be as necessary, in order to avoid the threatened alternatives, as it has ever been since 1828, while all the equivocal virtues of that policy would be absolutely exhausted. The danger of a civil war would then be more imminent than ever. It was that alleged danger which carried the Bill of 1829. It is that alleged danger, under the form o f a tithe-war, that has led to those compromises whic h have placed the existence of the Established Church of Ire land in jeopardy. That alleged danger will, at no distant period (unless our national policy shall be absolutely reversed) lead to the recognition of the Romish Church as the Established Chureh of Ireland ; and after the exhaustion of the whole series of degrading experiments which we have indicated, we shall, infallibly, be nearer a civil war than ever. The terms of continued union with England that would then be proposed, would be, the adop tion by England of the Papal faith. The alternative, then, as now, would be a war of extermination ! To win back heretics! England to the Romish fold is, undoubtedly, the great, the ultimate object of the Irish Roman Catholic party. To attain that object, everything will be sacrificed. The policy, through which alone that object is to be at tained, is now triumphant. Let those who dread such a result, bestir themselves forthwith to subvert a policy, of which that result must prove a necessary consequence. The time for hesitation is rapidly passing. The last ten years have brought with them a century's strength to the Roman Catholic cause in Ireland.—Morning Herald. LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—This line has been open throughout the whole distance for one fort night only, and we have reason to know that during the first week the receipts amounted to 11,0001., of which sum more than 2,000/. were taken in one day.—Railway Times. RAILWAY COMPENSATION CASES.—In the She riff's Court on Wednesday six cases of A cntm w ie a n s sat s io ,2 n Bo fo l r ., p: h o f perty required by the Blaw ail Commercial Railway Company were trit d. The t ,tal amount of cla i m amount of award 3,670/. In one case the claim was fur 2001. while the award was 501 (the sum offered by the Company), and it appeared that while the claim had h. en made upon the 6th of August, 1838, the lease under which it was male was dated the Bth of the same month. The Company's Counsel and the Under Sheriff characterised the claim as " extraor dinary," and such it certainly was. The expenses will nearly reach the sum originally claimed, twenty-four guineas being the item paid to the Jury for their inspection of the premises. Great interest was excited in the show-yard at the agricultural meeting (at Glasgow) on Thursday, by the pre s. nee of the veteran hero Baron Lynedoch_" the gallant Graham who conquered at Vittoria." His Lordship has now reached the age of eighty-ei!:ht, and has a very venerable ap pearance. He rode over the ground slowly, and inspected the stock with much attention.—Scottish Guardian. An inquest was held on Tuesday at the Rising Sun, Bromley, on the body of Anne Jameson, who died of hydro phobia. It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Illcott, sur geon, and others, that the deceased was bitten by a strange d.ig while in the street, on the 4th of July last. After the first fright she took no notice of the occurr...nce. On Monday se'nnight she was viiited by Mr. lllcott, who found her com plaining of a violent pain in the arm. He then administered medicine, but she dAils grew worse, and died on Thursday. The dog had been killed. The deceased was a married woman, 53 years old. Verdict—" Died from hydrophobia." A short time since two young men, the very pinks of fashioa, of the most approved gentility. came down to Brighton and took lodgings in a fashionable part of the etwn. During the time they stayed here, four or five days, they lived like lords, were most liberal in their orders, and altogether con ducted th•-rnselves in the way in which gallants who have not yet learned the use of money are apt to do. Amongst other instances of this seeming extravagant spirit, we may mention that they purchased--no, not pui chased—procured, two baud some five guinea riding-whips of Mr. Akehurst, saddler, of St. James's-street. After having bestow ed similar extensive patronage on many others of our tradesmen, and the time for a settlement being arrived, they took a sudden diilike to the town, and one bright morning shook the dust from their feet, bade it farewell, and have never been seen sinco, at least not by those who were induced to put so much confidence in their dress and address. The owner of the house, we are sorry to add, is ill able to sustain the loss. —Brighton Herald. A FAT GHOST.—We inserted a few weeks ago an amusing anecdote from the pen of Theodore Hook, of the part of the ghost in Hamlet , having o nce been p la y ed by an act whose name he gave, in spectacles. Since then the Liverpool playgoers have had an opportunity of seeing the ghos t p la y ed at our theatre by Mr. Stuart, with his arm in a sling. Amusing as the appearance of the spectacled ghost must have been, the anecdote we are about to relate of a fat ghost is not less amus ing. Many of our readers will recollect the late Mr. Banks, who for many years was co-lessee of the Liverpool and Man chester theatres. He was a remarkably large, fat man, as large and as fat as Lableche, the famous bass singer. who ap peared recently in the Italian concert at th e Amphith. thou g h Mr. Banks always played the ghost in Hamlet, and, formidable-looking, a most excellent ghost he was. Once on a time, while enacting the part on the stage of t ire Manchester theatre, his great bulk gave rise to a most laugha ble incident. The ghost, it will he remembered by our theatrical readers, used to vanish. from some of the scenes, through a trap-door or. the stage. Well, on one occasion Mr. Banks had taken his station on the spot. The bolt was withdrawn, and slowly descended the ghost, truncheon in hand. The legs disap pr'ared in due course ; but whether owing to the increase of his own bulk or to some alteration in the size of the aperture, the moment the huge round belly touched the edge of the stage the process of sinking suddenly ceased. The ghost stuck fast in the middle. No contrivance, no sq ueezing. no wriggling on the part of Mr. Banks could fo rce his Falstaffiati hotly through the trap-hole. The auditory were c onvulsed with laughter ; even the ghost himself, alas 1 poor g host, " joined in t h e laughter, and quietly submitted to be lifted out " of the hole by the stage attendants. —Liverpool On Wednesday, as several workmen were employed in digging a foundation at the back of the premises of Messrs. Torras and Co., letter-press and copper-plate printers, No. 7, Palace-row, near the Reservoir in the Hampstead-road, on arriving about four feet below the surface, they discovered, to their astonishment, three perfect human skulls, placed in a direct line, about a foot and a half from each other, but with out any other portions of the human frame being in any way attached to them. They were immediately shown to the pro prietor of the premises ; but he not knowing what to do with them, ordered their re•interment. Many surmises are afloat upon the subject, but the most feasible is, that they must have been placed in the position in which they were found by some investigation. G E Ro u s A medical st u d ents . I t i s suppos ed, however, that in the event of the cir cumstance com i ng to th e ears of the parochial autho rities they w ill b e aga i n ex h ume d, and become the subject of some M ext l r S a T or A di lC na E r following Wednesday,.y—anOil neemen bearinc , the were attached bills to the walls of Southwark and its environs •—" Poison.—On Sunday morning last a man, apparently 25 • years of age , and about five feet eight inches high, rather thin face, withprn pro- jecting or prominent nose, and who wore a jacket and lightish echo m t ro users, and stated that he had been a watc h the parish of Walworth nine years previous to the an' in police, came to a regular druggist's shop, a -hen distance from Walworth, for medicine to cure an eruption on the skin, and stated that more in the house were size, the same c ondition as himself. He took away by mistalle co ntaining Stave's-acre powder,' whi c h one out of a packet five persons in t he sho p was wai t i ng for, d should have had. The p acket was of the same and and w as tied up in the sa me coloured p a per. The mistake e, an arose from the hurry ; all the persons in the shop wishing. served at one timeprevent . This notice is to the individual taking the poison. Probably some one reading this may know the perso n described. The remed y or antidote is to. drink warm water plentifully ; as soon as possible take an emetic of sulphate of zinc, castor oil if required ; smell of ammonia (not take it internally); to refrain from vinegar or • "ts May he well rubbed, and be kept moving spinto prevent sleep. An egg or two may be swallowed previous to the emetic." In a similar case about six years ago the notice then published was too late ; two persons died from the effects of the poison given in mistake. THE ADVANTAGE OF BEING TALL.—A y o ung Scia tc h m an, who the othe r da y was a p riva te in the 9 2 d Regi -- nient, now stationed iu this island, being so re,arkably tall that he was unable to stand upright in a sentry box, w as, iu in consequence, promoted to the rank of corporal.—Malta , John Nein eng er, a German c remanded on a chcharge Paper. o: was na y stabbing in the hand a woman named Tees, the keeper of a Hall, on examined NV ed A t Un ion ic kI n e s anda house ill-fame in Newington, with whom he had a dispute res pecting money. The wound was of a serious description. CAUTION TO CARMEN.—On Wed nes d ay n i g ht, between eight and nine o'clock, Joseph Banks, carman, in the employment of .Messrs. Host Cotton, of Bermondsey_wali watt en the top of a waggon loaded with rushes, when h , slip, ed off and fell about fifteen feet to the ground, pitchinv upon th - back of his head. He sustained severe injury of tilt skull aid likewise of the spine. He was removed to St. Thcmas's Hospital. Hopes are entertained of his surviving. RADICAL MEETING ON THE CUR BELLY HILL. (Abridged from the Dumfries Courier.) A public meeting of the working classes of Dumfries and Maxwelltown was held at four o'clock on Friday last, in the field on the Corbelly Hill. The meeting was called under the auspices of the Working Man's Association. A hustings with a single chair for the President, had been erected upon the ground, and at the hour mentioned we should think about 400 would be in attendance, chiefly of the class of workmen. Two banners floated on the brow of the hill, one or both of which had figured a few minutes before in the Tee-total procession. After a few remarks by Mr. Jerry Knight, the CHAIRMAN stated that this was the first public meeting of the working classes in Dumfries for the purpose of sxpressing their political opinions. The business before the meeting was to adopt the Pe,,ple's Charter, which had already received the sanction of millions of their countrymen in other parts of the kingdom, and though the Dumfriesians were late, it was better late than never. Their intentions were to better their condition ; to participate in what God had given, but which had been with held by man for many a day. After .a few further obser vations the Chairman called on Mr. Jerry Knight to address the meeting. Mr. KNIGHT, hatter, spoke at considerable length on the subject ot politics, and the condition of the working classes. He stated that the first object of their exertions was to obtain Universal Suffrage. This, however, had been scouted by the great ones of the earth, and the working men were told that they were not entitled to it. He conceived he was as well in formed, and a good deal better, than many Members of Par liament—that he could decipher a bill as well as many of these legislators, and since they taxed him, he conceived he was entitled to representation. They had been told, too, that they had no stake or nt.rest in the country. Why, here is our property, said Mr. K extending his ten fingers ; and yet. though they were the productive classes of the country— though the working classes were those to wham its greatness, asa commercial and manufacturing nation , were attribu table, still they were those who were excluded from all political equality, and while the wealthy man could go to another couutry and buy a cheap loaf of bread, the poor man was compelled to starve at home on provisions which were rendered dear by the landlord's monopoly. The lot of the poor man is wretched in the extreme, and though to his exertions the wealth of the country might be attributed, yet he had no share in theses benefits. He begged a brother of the earth for leave to toil. The speaker further adverted to the Corn-laws, which he said were not made for the benefit of the farmer, but of the land lord. As to the system of reciprocity, he condemned the pol:cy which compelled us to take our sugars from the West Indies, which took from us only five millions of barter ; and not from the East Indies, which, under the same circum stances, would be willing to take twenty-four millions annu ally. The interests of the many were sacrificed for the good of the few. There was the standing army, for instance, which had been reduced in time of peace, but the complement of officers was kept up at the war standard for the express be nefit of the Aristocracy. Why they had as many Admirals as they had ships, and let them look at 304 of these persons re ceiving two guineas per day, while there was only need for three of them, while there were only three Admirals afloat. --( Hear.) Let mothers endeavour, by all means, to instil into their offspring the duty of respecting worth —not wealth ; let them bring them up in those principles of morality and freedom which would make them good mem bers of society. Having made these observations, he would move that the meeting adopt the national petition, which had been so cordiilly received by the working men of other quar ters He alluded to the anomaly of the franchise as at present constituted, where a man like Donald Horne, of Edinburgh, by the manufacture of paper or life-rent freehold, possessed no fewer than ten votes. He then alluded specially to the Corn-laws, though he did not wish the workmen to concen trate their energies on the abrogation of these laws, to the ex clusion or detriment of the other great political questions of the day. The speaker then Drought the Entail-laws be fore the meeting, which he characterised as a most scan dalous monopoly on the part of the rich, which would never have been permitted in the case of the poor. He then alluded to various public matters—such as the union between Church and State, which he depatedhurried pass ing of gagging Bills, and the tardy enactment of the Test and Corporation and the Reform Acts ; the introduction of Lord Brougham's Education Bill, % , ,Itich was kicked out by the Bishops—the expense of croened heads, which he wished to see paid accordiii to the standard of the President of the United States, though he was a republican. Finally, he strongly inculcated upon the working men to depend upon themselves alone—to agitate R.aceably—guard against vio lence to property, and spurn th,• fire and musket advice of Mr. Stephens. The working men hid only to know their own strength and exercise it constitutionally to press their wants successfully upon the House ot Commons Thereafter, on the motion of Andrew, three cheers were given to the " Peo ple's Charter," or the " National Petition," which was declared to be carried. On the motion of Mr. J. KNIGHT, three cheers were given for Provost S eat tridge, for so handsomely emitting the work. ing men his field as a place of me tiug ; and efts,- thanks had been voted to the Chairman, the , is.emblage quietly disp_rsed. THE SH.RFFIELID anti MAN CHESTER RAILWAY. The Manchester Guardian contains a description of the general nature of the line, and cons-quent character of the operations requisite for its con , truction. We subjoin some parts of our Contemporary's speech:— The first contract on this line has been let, and the ground was broken, with some ceremony, last Monday, near the centre of the Railway. This line is to be 391- miles in length, and will commence at Chancery. lane, Ardwick, where it is to join the Manchester and Birmingham line ; and thence it will proceed in a direct route, by the Pottery at Gorton, to the Stockport brinch of the Ashton Canal, under which it will pass at a point about half-way between the factory of Mr. Aaron Lees and the Ashton New Road. The most prominent feature of this railway will undoubtedly be the summit tunnel, the length of which is to be three miles —entering the mountain ridge, which separates the eastern and western termini, below Salters Brook, and t:.rmintting on the Yorkshire side at Dunford-bridge. It is proposed_ in the first instance, to be constructed for a single line of rails, and to be worked by locomotive power, the gradient through it being formed nearly level. With the exception of its length, and the d e pth o f th e shafts necessary to be sunk for ventila tion, no material difficulty is anticipated in working it. Tne strata being hard (at least, such is the anticipation of the en gineer), and of an extremely favourable description, little or no arching or lining will be required ; arid the elevation at which it perforates the mountain effectually secures the perfect and easi drainage of any water which may present itself. Prepa rations are now making for its immediate commencement. Although passing over a very hilly country, the line is so laid out that the whole distance can be easily worked without the assistance of stationary engines—no gradient being so great, by upwards of one-fourth, as the Sutton and Raiuhill inclines on the Manchester and Liverpool Rai!way, or the Warrington incline on the Grand Junction Railway. The connection hereafter to be opened to Manchester by this railway will la:-• of a very important nature. The scenery through which the line is to pass is of great novelty and beauty, pres , nting throughout a constant succes sion of picturesque change. On the Yorkshire side the route by the valley of the Don and through Wharncliffe Wood will be unequalled by any railway scenery in the kingdom. LASCAR BURL AL.-Considerahle crowds were of Wednesday attracted to the burial ground adjoining Trinity Church, in Cannon-street-road East, to witness the singular ce remony on the interment of a Lascar, who had recently an ived in this country by one of the East India ships, and who, being in a very delicate state of health durir,! , the voyage, died shortly after the vessel had put into the Si. Katharine's Dock. The hody of the deceased, which was merely rolled up in a piece of thin calico, was placed on a rude and temporary bier, formed of a few pieces of cane-wood, and decorated with several tur bans enfolded, and carried on the soldiers of four of his coun trymen, and in this manner was followed by about twelve or fourteen other Liscars. The singularity of such a procession, as well as the mariner of those who formed it, which appeared anything but serious or solemn, as most of them smoked their paper cigars, caused a considerable mob of persons to follow it from the vicinity of the docks, and by the time it had reached Cannon-street, several thousands had assembled, and it required the interference of the police to clear a pas sage to the churchyard. On getting in, however, some considerable delay tock place before the interment of the body could be effected, as it appeared no preparation whatever had been previously made for its reception, and it was sonic time before the Lascars could be prevailed upon to pay the 7s. which was demanded of them by the sextoness for the grave. They at length. however, paid the money, and a grave was in a short time prepared. The body was then handed to two of the Lascars, who had descended into the grave, and who placed it at full length on the earth, as the remainder of them squatted themselves round the edge of the grave, which was about seven feet deep, and with their hands uplifted, com• menced chanting, in somewhat discordant sounds, a prayer or hymn, while the two wko were in the grave continued to roll the corpse over and over several times in the bottom of the grave. Various other ceremonies were subsequently gone through, and on a given signal the men in the grave, with astonishing agility, got out of it, and all commenced with the greatest rapidity to throw the earth into the grave with their hands. The almost incredible quickness with which they per formed this wa s such that the grave was filled in a few mi nutes, and having then used a shovel to settle and harden the earth on the top, the whole of the party left the ground smoking their paper cigars. The beetroot sugar manufacturers of Valenciennes, Avegne s, Lille, and the department of the Pas de Calais, have h e ld various moetings for the purpose of petitileminGovern-- borne me nt and the Chambers on the sug Four ar Deputies, dutis, to the same ' effect as the gr owers of Cambrai. Mc-sars. Taillandier, Corne, Dumont, and INlarchant, have promised to support their claims. Carinino Rosso, the itinerant Neapolitan tinker, who, as our readers will remember, committed a barbarous murder in the month of January, at Da per son of an ex-friar, named True, was guignan, on the t s e executed this day week of the in that town. The last penaltylaw had not for many . fears been carried into effect at Draignati, and, on this occasion the execution was attended with peculiarly horrible circumstances. The knife of the guillotine not being . t•iently sharp, descended three different . tie culprit without severing his head fro t rr i ih his on ho dthearigliedck of one the executioners was in the end actually hi' y, • -form 0 lf,l( perform his fatal dace with the aid of a eutlass..—Gailynani. ....~..►~ ~ e TO THE LICENSED VICTUALLERS one tarynd a N.ival Orphan Allum, who were slating Cymns, and OF ENGLAND. n ighhourhof them . . as carrying a flag. They pas Led on and left tilts, ood. Supposing thai. to be the case. the p rinierneot and witness kfr but they ,Oiiced a police= man on duty near the soot. In about half an hour's,„ time the policeman brought ,cord that the defendant was. preaching in Charles-street. Witness went " there a nd *, found a crowd of about two hundred persons. He sp ke to the defendant and requested him to tesist, which, after much persuasion, he consented to do. Witness, with the , assistance of some of his men, then dispersed thee , owd, and the defendant went away. About seven o'clock, however, ritiless received inforniazion that the defindantwas in Union• terrace. ac! liessing shout 400 persons. Witrttss instantly pro ceeded there, and found a . collec , ion of between 400 and 500 persons, some of who;-, were the most notorious characters in their district. Whiie witness was speaking to the defendant, he called upon the mob to assist him in the name of the Lord. A rush instantly took place, and the utmost contusion ensued, i- the midst of which the children were in danger. The crowd, after much difficulty, was driven back, when witness again tried to induce the defendant to desist, which he e ventually did, promising that he would appear at this office that day. Witness did not tyke him to the station-house as he gave that news- The Committee of Management of the Era. Sunda, paper, think it incumbent upon them to return their grateful thanks to the body of Licensed Victuallers throughout the country for the noble and generous supp ,rt they have given to the new Journal. The Era commenced its career last Sun day in so triumphant a manner as to form a very remarkable, and indeed unprecedented, event in t he history of English nesv s papers. This is susceptible of an explanation highly honour able to the Licensed Victuallers, both as men and trade meta, and the Committee, although they have used, and are using. every means in their power, to render the paper a great Na tional Journal, are proud and happy to acknowledge, that they owe their splendid begnining to the fact that the profits of the Era are to be devoted, in due proportions, to the assistance of the School and Asylum in the metropolis and the extension of Establishments of Education and Protection, connected with the body throughout the kingdom. The Licensed Victuallers, and all connected with the trade, are earnestly and respect fully solicited to continue their exerticnis in this great and holy cause. Signed by order of the Committee, G. S. KEYMER, Hon. Sec. P. BRE N AN, Acting Sec. Committee-room, No. 20, Catherine-street, Strand, Oct. 3, 1838. promise. In answer to Mr. CODD. the Inspector said that the crowd caused a great obstruction. Several other policemen corro borated the evidence. • The def•ndant had been at many police-offices, bnt be never was at one where he bad experienced so much false swearing. He had been in the habit of preaching in the open air for the last twenty years, but no complaints were made against him. In this case no obstruction was caused, since he and his friends were desirous that none should occur, and they did all they could to prevent any. Mr. CODD concurred in opinion that thCre was an obstruc tion. Having that view of the case he should hold the defen dant to bail. The defendant and his sureties gave the required recogni lances: UNION-HALL. John Donoghue was brought up for re-exarninafion, charged with having caused his wife's death by striking her a b low. At the inquest held on the body of the deceased, a verdict to the effect that she died from apoplexy was returned. Since then, however, it was rumoured that other evidence could be produced, which would • inculpate the prisoner in the charge of murder. Several witnesses were now examined, and, after a lengthened inquiry into all the circumstances of the case th, re being no evidence adduced to prove that the deceased's death was occasioned by violence, the Magistrate discharged the accused. Edward Hayes, a well-dressed young man, in the employ ment of James Margerson, a leather seller, of Bermondsey , was charged with embezzling divers sums of money, the pro -0 perty of his employer. From the evidence it appeared that the prisoner had on a recent occasion receivild a sum of 161 from a Mr. Frost, for his employer, with Which he absconded and went to Bristol/. in which city he was taken a few days ago. At the time °I his apprehension he said that he committed the offence for thf purpose of being transported, in order to get out,of the reads of a had wife, whom he had unfortunately married. " he The prisoner was committed, and he requested that t _ cause of his having takeh the money might be enter ed on to; face of the depositions, so that the Judge who tried him Mig have an opportunity of seeing it. THAMES- OFFICE. A young woman, named Julia Dunbar, of rather Vep *. sessing appearance, whose demeanour was very superior t! a' that of the unfortunatellWasien who are generally placed the bar of this office every morning for being drunk and ail: derly. whs char .ed with creating a disturbance at the Flu te in i„ son's Arms public-house, in Devonport-street, Commerc'" road, and breaking several panes of glass. The case having been proved, Mr. Valentine, the Inspeet%t of the K division, said the history of the prisoner was a ° tit lamentab!c one. She was a daughter of one of the Cir c— to Judges of Scotland, and her relatives and friends were Pe A r 6 i , of the greatest respectability in that country. She 118 " A - 17 ) ; ceived a ood education. Some time ago she was sedu•el" d a gentleman, who prevailed upon her to leave Scotland an brought her to London, where he left her. She had badsu b quently pursued an infamous life, and on one occasion attempted to destroy h-rself. He believed the poor g iri l ,: t ne very anxious to reform and return to Scotland • but a.. At prevented her making her situation known to her 'friends. times she was very penitent. i d be Mr. GREENWOOD hoped the situation of the g irl woo', her made known to her family, who, on being acquainted witcluotibt present mode of life, and her desire to quit it, would n o s he receive her again. He ordered her to pay for the d anosge, o , had done to the publican's windows, and in de fault to be I prisoned.. brothel Mr o . u t , b g . ;" V ke a t le p n e t r in w e it s h ai w d ho t m he sh p e oo l r iv g e i d a t w o a r s em to a o in p r i o n fi p ta r b i s l o e n t The Inspector was right. In a few minutes after the brow keeper paid the fine, and took the girl away. James Donovan, who is in the service of a smuggler n sin _.. e s ci a Crouch, at the ToWer-stairs, was charged on a Custom-I'l'l'v information with aiding and assisting Gazen, but the uu_ a •i d evidenet! ag:iinq him was, that he was rowing the boat , !_., the magistrates dismissed him with a caution, saying that tne7t had no moral doubt of his guilt, but there was not 9U legal legal evidence to convict him. The officers said Donovan had bean twice convicted °I smueglihg, and was in the employ of Crouch, a wa tertn o and smuggler. EXTENSIVE ROBBERlES.—Yesterda y received intre major, of the followingnumerous r! ie )bllerPie°sl:i__Ce o.i the ecenitag of the 21 instant a silver watch was stolen from the house of Mr. Joseph Charles, No. 10, Plumber'sa Mr. Oliver and Mr. Clavis, Nos. 2 and 3, roar, Mile End-road. On the same afternoon, the housrs of Horsemonger.lane, were entered during the absence of the f'• milies by means of skeleton keys, and the following valuabl: articles stolen :—Six watches (one a valuable hunter), a ne n , brown great coat, five silver tea-spoons, and a pair of al; th tongs, marked "J. J. 5.," a tortoise-shell snuff -box. hand' silver plate on the top, and two greyhounds, three silk ne kerchiefs, two gold brooches, a gold pin, two gold rings (! en engrave,l ‘• J .1 S "), 8/. in silver and gold, arid, and baentrfio Union-terrace, 31 and 4/. in farthings. the property of Mr. Oliver, f f_box, sovereigns, three tortoise-shell boxes, a work-box, a "%nice a wedding-ring and keeper, two gold brooc hes, two core' k n ife, mounted with silver (English's patent), a silver f r utt- f Mr. two cornelian drops and a cross, &c. , t he prope c' rtY A i n rrigs Clavis. Ott the same d .y, from the h ouse of Mo• „ pair Seymour-place, two rings, a brooch , eig ht linen sh_ir ci t :' o 7 nee of ear-rings set with garnet and turquo is, forty Ya' ,-,„ 'fuel" lace, and a large quantity of other wearing apparel. ," portle nd " day afternoon, from a house in Weymouth-street, ja g, & place, an amethyst necklace, a pair of amethyst e ar c r eier. 8 a hooch set with pearls, a cameo brooch, a gold bra id ne ck-. opera glass, two brilliant studs, two brilliant pins, a g° l cr est, 6 chain, a gold swivel seal, a gold seal with arms grove. The silver watch, and a seal of pure gold, with green sterfinchardi robhery was committed by a man who calls him st ylish l y' n ii olyt Auguste, and lodged in the house. He dresses very per.• and generally drives a cab. He states that. he came ir tis ' s oli deaux, but is supposed to be a native of Canada, and,"Lonclon• visited pwer, R.,niseate, Chatham, Gravesend, and dsroh• com mitte He is' supposed to be the same person who bery at No. 5, Paul's-chain, some time since. ri Of t o r de a co t u il r . " e d a SUDDEN DEATH.—A melancholy. the text "in the midst of life we are in deatilhi,t'ls Abe' ry , twith. A Mr. Edward Edwards, fea days since, at Tallybout, in the neighbourhon rzbydr n ear . - 0 . 0 to perine, a respectable blacksmith, having occasion w t . :p i ; the Machynlleth, on Alonday,last. being rather too late Chao Gallopade coach, ran a considerable distance after i.t:.tachaeg" was his strength and spei d that he overtook it Whi,T, s aybon t, ‘e ing horses et the house l ot Mr. Morgan Morgan, at 0 /0 1 be i of Dole, t He had, however, ben only a few minutes on the c oach fon° ' fore the two pas , engers between whom he was s eate d 01 him a corpse, Wl'hout uttering a sigh overan, or l; . sign whatever of his awful departure. —ford J flu 60 1 ) ;fe GENTLEMEN'S ELEGANT Ft , -- i ' r f a 5.- ,1 h , o I s ar suited for wear in the waistcoat pocket, WA I'CH ES are offered, price Nine Guineas eac , eas es, ".. f e enamel dial, and hand to mark the secor‘ds.. The m i . uree to ee,a, on the celebrated horizontal construction, with g,°i n g,,,. a ated , ,t t en tinue going while winding, jewelled, &c. and wa-chal, l'' 4 7, Cor . COX SAVORY'S, Watchmaker, &c., N ' o• doors from Gracechrch-street), London. , i in es chal i g e , N.B. Second-hand Watches, Plate, &c. purchasci ___.--- .. _._._----_ _ _ ------- gong BIRTHS. .Al,,,,naer On the Ist inst., at Highgate, the lady of D. ''''"' g et mont, Esq., of a daughter. . n. So On the 2d inst., at Southend, the lady of Captain J'' engine turneoovements ;r. Festing, Royal Navy, of a daughter. On the 3 0 th ult. , a t Brighton, Lady Graham , of s Carlton' On On the 2 9 th ult., the lady of Adrian Hope, Esq.' tea of a dens, of a son. s t auu-' On the Ist inst., in Skinner-street, Airs. T. or a b o lls , daughter. Nic On the 2d inst., at Blackheath Park, Airs. J. J. . an ,, Soav es, J daughter. - On the 2d inst., of a son, still-born, Airs. James S W° Artillery-place, Finsbury square. e 't el. MAR R IED. ' ''' ult,, th rfor ' At Kingston Church, Portsmouth, on the T. G. Torry Anderson, of St. Paul's Episcopal bers-close, Edinburgh, to Elizabeth Jane, Od e ' • ca' Peter Suther, Esq., surgeon, R.N. On the 29th ult., at Hampton Wick, F. Kea ts ' am dilly, to Miss Danaiels, of Hampton Wick. I EA., of P ie EA' ' .......,per, , t he On the 2d inst., at Church Broughton, Marshal niter of 2' taital7l-la'tige:ier °I of Torrington-square, to Frances Mary, second dat___:......./ On the 31st of July, at late Harry Yates, Esq., of Sapperton, Derbyshir e Je" d ; a n Douglas, Esq P II aa ' •, rovost , arshal-General of the island' , f the afterward, Ellen Mary, his infant daughter. ,_ w idow e On the Ist inst., at Blackheath, aged 74, Saran' .• of ate. lateßowland ' Richardson. Esq ,of Streatham. 1, clailg On the 2d inst., at the Firs • Rickmansworth, Siby t.. so v . the late John Finch. Esq., of 'Redheath House, of ;ft. it. o r • DIED. in the West indides;bortlf On the 3d inst.. Emily, the infant daughter °I _, c i a re-° 0 th e Jaquet, of Johnson's Tavern and Alamode 13eef-houss.,aioat °, ls ke, At George Town, Demerara, province of 13ritiak.yowo P ti 3d of August, aged 38, Ann Constantia, wife of 4 , 11 _ late A" Esq., of Plantation Vive la-Force, daughter of tn. b th° Loucke, LL.D., of Essequibo. On the 23th ult., at Blissworth, NorthaniP , e a 84, wife of M. G. Duke, of Chancery-lane, aged 3 5 ;,.,, a lt., g At Bishop's Hull, near Taunton, on the 2eti' Ali cil Hooker Barttelot, Esq. r nil-place' On the 30th ult., in Weymouth-street, - '''',-,_%, k;5q: .. ......... / Mary, eldest. daughter of the late Robert 1.-1113 y. ‘-,..___......-of pro, London : Printed and Published by 1141g 119 ? an d, in the 112, Strand, at The Sue Office, Ne. 112, AFtr• of ididdlesex.— Friday . October 5, 1838. tonshire, Sara P LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Ocr. 4. ROBERT BEETON'S BANKRUPTCY. This bankrupt, who formerly carried on business as a linen draper, in the Blackfriars-road, and who was remanded by a sub-divi.ion Court for not having given a satisfactory account of the disposal of his property, was to-day brought up for final examination. On being questioned by the Learned Commissioner, the bankrupt still persevered that he had no disposition to make any alteration in his former statement, as sworn before the sub division Court, upon which the Learned Commissioner said it was impossible such a statement of accounts could be passed, and the proceedings were adjourned sine die. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Ocr. 4. I SWINDLING.—John Cooniber was opposed by Mr. Weeks, ' a tea-dealer, who complained that he had been swindled out of about 60/. worth of goods. The insolvent had set up as a grocer, but Mr. Weeks said he had discovered that he was connected with a gang of per sons who had plundered the public ; one had been transported. He gave him as he thought a respectable reference and a bill of exchange. The referee left his residence, which he had tAken to give characters, and the acceptor had left. The goods supplied by Mr. Weeks and the insolvent both disappeared. He had been thirteen months in Whitecross-street Prison. He refused to say how often he had been in prison. Mr. Commissioner Bows.N said the insolvent • had defrauded Mr. Weeks out of his property, and remanded him at his suit from his petition for a period of fourteen calendar months. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. A little girl named Eliza Fox, not yet ten years of age, was brought up by a constable named Isaacs under these odd cir cumstances :—lsaacs was in the watch-house of one of the wards when the child was brought in, at ten o'clock at night, and represented by the officer who accompanied her to be in a destitute condition. She told him that she lived in the neigh bourhood of the Victoria Theatre, and he accompanied her thither, but after having led him round the streets in that vici nity, in which nobody appeared to know her, she confessed that her parents did not reside in that part of the town. He then went with her to other places, but he found that she had told him nothing but lies. For hours he went about with her, but could meet with nobod l . who had ever seen her before; but he met with rather a disagreeable incident in their peregrinations A gentleman, who appeared to be in liquor, accused him in the street of having cruelly treated the child, said that Lord John Russell deserved to be punished for appointing such a fellow as a guardian of the public, and actually caused him to be taken to the station-house, in Tower-street, Waterloo road. and charged him with having acted like a bat barian to the little girl. The Inspector of thegL division certainly re fused to take the charge, but he also refused to take Isaacs's charge against the gentleman for having obstructed him in the performance of his duty. After dodging about from one end of the town to the other, he at length lodged the little girl in the Compter, where she was recognised as a regular run-away, having disappeared from the place in which she had a protec tor no less than eleven different times. The Loan MAYOR asked whether any friend of the little creature was present ? A decent woman stepped forward, and said that the little girl was the chance child of her husband's first wife, and that her husband and herself were desirous of doing all in their power to serve her. The child, however, had such a pro pensity to wandering about, and lying, that it was quite im possible to controul her. She fancied that the Compter was Newgate, and when witness went to her in pri-on, she laughed, and observed, " Well, nobody can say uuw but that I have been in Ne ate." Isaacs—a le appears to be an uncommonly clever child, and reads extremely well. I was greatly struck as we went along in a cab riding, in which she was highly delighted, to ob serve how well she seemed to know all the places we visited. She is perfectly acquainted with all parts of the town, and she gave me inure trouble than I ever had before. The little girl smiled upon being asked why she told so rnin“ lies, and seetre2d inwardly to enjoy the annoyance which sh , had eaus , d the constable. The Loan MAYOR—We must send back the child for a few days. This is a ease which requires •‘onsid,ration. It would be dreadful to let tt;is. poor infant he destroyed, BO I.V- S IRKET. John Hannon, sch, is charged wit causing to be engravA a plate of a note for ten dollars of the Bank of Toronto, Upper Canada ; and likewise with causing to be made a stamp, intending to resemble the signatures of Mr. Ri,!out and Mr. Proudfoot,the Treasurer and President of the Bank, was yesterday brought up for further examination, and, after evidence had been heard, he was remanded. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Mrs. Short, an aptly-named little dame, charged Mr. Poultney, (we of the tax-collectors of the parish of St. George, Hanov4 r-square, with having committed the enormity of " frightening her out of her wits," by threatening to blow her brains out with a stick of red sealing-wax. Mrs. Short stated that her daughter and herself occasionally relieved the tedium vita with a touch at the piano. One of her daughters having mastered a piece of new music, came to her, and pressed her to hear it played over. Nut being at the moment favourably disposed towards the " concourse of sweet sounds," she told her daughter to postpone the infliction until the " bohea " had been imbibed. The daughter, finding she could not persu.tde her to make an "obligato accompani ment," set off with allegro moverre.nt round the table, in chase of her. The ndiy race was, however, stopped by a thunderiug sap at the door. When the knock was an swered, Mr. P. presented himself at the door, and warmly de manded what all the racket meant. After venting les anger he went to the landlorii, and laid the matter before him, but not being then completel satisfied, he made his app arauce again iu ts'e vicinity of complainant's room, and performed the exploit which had caused him to eppear at the office, namely, be threatened to blow her brains out with something he held in his hand, if she persisted in again cutting capers round the tea table. Mr. Poultney entered upon his defence. Immersed as he occasionally was in the onerous duties of tax colleCtor, his faculties were frequently " flabbergasted" by the con strepito performances of the upstairs pianists. On the day when th o ccurrence took place, hearing a noise above similar to wha, would be produced by a dozen 3outig elephants " larking," he went up stairs to 11. g the ladies to infuse a little less of the forte in their motions. Mrs. Short rated him in good set term:, told him that her " room was her castle," and that she would do as she plea-fd in it. Mr. CHAMBERS—Ay, but what do you say to the charge of having attempted, pistol in hand, to storm her castle? Nir. Poultnev—l admit, on bei,ig greatly provoked, that I said to her, " certainly blow your brains out if you continue to make such a noise," but here is the sort of pistol which I had in my hand at the time (pulling out a piece of red sealing, wax and an office ruler). Mrs. Short confessed that she did not see what Mr. Poult ney held in his hand, but she believed her daughter and ser. rant did. Miss Short could not swear it was a pistol M. Poultw y had, but is looked to her larger than an office ruler. The servant girl saw something in Mr. Ponitney's hand, but the only description she could give of it was, that it moved backwards and forwards. A Miss Corinna was called to prove that Mrs. Short made so much noise that the other lodgers had threatened to leave if she stopped. Mrs. Shoit declared that Miss Corinna's evidence was only a " bit of spite." Formerly she made one of her daughters quite her bosom friend. They were more inseparable than the Siamese twins, and like to a " double cherry parted," where ever one was, there the other was to be found. A squabble had, however, occurred, and Miss Corinna could give her quondam friends a sufficiently disparaging character. The landlord came forward and said it was his wish for Mrs Short to leave his house. Mrs. Short—No, I shall not go before my time is up. a quarterly lodger, arid I shan't remove till February nex Mr. CHAMBERS—TiIe charge of threatening to blow your brains out turns out to be mere nonsense, and as you wish to stop in a house where you say you are afraid such a threat will be put into execution, I cannot believe that you entertain any such fear, and therefore 1 snail discharge the warrant. W 0 1? SHIP- STRER T. Yesterday Mr. George Charles Smith, commonly called Boatswain Smith, appeared at this office on a charge of preaching in the public highway, so as, by collecting a crowd, to CRIPC an obstruction of the public thoroughfare. Inspector Lewis, of the H division stated that the defen c'ant had sent a communication to the Commissioners of the Metropolitan Police, as well as to Mr. Pierse, the Superinten dant of the division, that it was his intention to preach a ser mon in Charles-street, Hackney-road, that being the locality from which a person on Sunday last, of the name of Hyde, was taken to the station-house on a similar charge, and who was released from any bond, he having promised not to con tinue the obstruction. In consequence of the communication the Superintcndent and witness, at the time stated by the de fendant, went to a house in the nei g hbourhood to watch the defendant's procced it :g s. About six o'clock they saw the de fendant, who was accompanied by some children of the Mill- 0